1895 - Shemp Howard born
1902 - Bobby Jones born
1918 - Mercedes McCambridge born
1919 - Nat King Cole born
1921 - The first birth control clinic is opened in Britain by Marie Stopes
1938 - Rudolf Nureyev born
1941 - Paul Kantner born
1944 - John Sebastian born
1949 - Patrick Duffy born
1951 - Kurt Russell born
1955 - Gary Sinise born
1957 - British European Airways withdraws 25 Viscount 701s in the wake of the fatal Manchester aircrash.
1960 - Arye Gross born
1964 - Rob Lowe born
1968 - More than 200 people are arrested after thousands clash in an anti-Vietnam war protest outside the United States embassy in London.
1972 - Mia Hamm born
1973 - Caroline Corr born
1978 - Thousands of Palestinian civilians flee a third day of Israeli attacks.
1984 - The 130th Boat Race is postponed less than an hour before it is due to start after the Cambridge vessel is involved in a collision.
1995 - Notorious gangland killer Ronnie Kray dies in hospital two days after he collapses in his ward at Broadmoor.
2001 - The £86m Eden Project attracted 7,000 visitors to its official opening, despite a protest by farmers who said it should not have opened because of the foot-and-mouth crisis.
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